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Comment by Grant on November 30, 2011 at 4:26pm

Peter - So, I am a bit late in listening to this, but I am not so sure that Michael Cera was ever ACTUALLY a hold-out for the movie deals. According to Hurwitz, in a full cast interview (where the announcement was made), the whole Cera as a hold-out for the film was a joke Hurwitz put out there to make Cera look like a diva and it went terribly wrong. Whether or not that is true, who knows. But thats the story they are telling.

Source: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/mitchell-hurwitz-promi...

Comment by Mad Man Mick on November 30, 2011 at 2:51am

Sprinkle a little shut the fuck up Grant and Werewolf, werewolf on a Patton Oswalt reference and I would have thought I woke up in the past.  

Comment by Alex Thompson on November 29, 2011 at 3:19am

@Leon - Thanks for the answer on The Walking Dead segment.  I look forward to the mid-season focused show.  Keep up the good work!

Comment by Vincent Black on November 28, 2011 at 11:00pm

You should check out Thankskilling one of my favorites thanks giving themed B movie, i am hoping the guys from Family guy makes Kiss saves Santa as a Christmas movie,

Comment by Declan on November 28, 2011 at 1:10pm

Hell yeah!!! Blue Crabs from Virginia FTW!!!! gotta love em

Comment by Jose Antonio Rivera on November 27, 2011 at 5:33pm

@Fungusmonkey - No worries, man. I took no issue with you. It was more of a general statement about how people see Booster. Though, kudos for the Snapper Carr reference!

Staff Comment by Fungusmonkey on November 27, 2011 at 5:20pm

@obscurefan - While I wouldn't say I'm "thin" (more like average, maybe a bit paunchy), I find having an insane metabolism and daily exercise of some kind helps. Plus, the real threat with McRibs isn't the fat or calories, it's the sodium. Whenever they come out, I try to really limit my sodium intake for other meals and be more conscientious about my diet.

 

@hahabest - Oh we know he is, you just don't assume he'd be such a big deal in a place like Odessa.

 

@Jose - I was trying to give the cliff notes version of the character to people who may not be familiar, but I'm right there with you. He's always been a great character (I was bummed when they put him back in JLI, but Ted Kord is still nowhere to be found), and it's not so much that they "changed" him in 52 as much as they "fixed" him in 52 so that he was viable again to new readers and is much more like his old self (aka not just a joke). It's similar to what they've tried to do (unsuccessfully) in the past with Snapper Carr and (successfully) with the new Aquaman book.

Comment by SpikeGhost on November 27, 2011 at 1:33pm

I don't even know what Skyrim is!

i know it's a game but that's it XD

Comment by Dr. Detfink on November 27, 2011 at 9:42am

The problem with the Booster Gold TV show can be derived from two areas:

1. Very finite # of Booster Gold stories Without interlocking with any other DC characters. As much as I enjoyed Johns/Jurgens run it's very integrated with the rest of the DCU. In a modest budget, this could be challenging because Warner Bros. would not give up the rights to characters without a pretty penny attached. This is a bit different from Smallville where Warner was the driving force behind it. 

 

2. There's a certain other Timelord who travels through time to save the Earth AND the galaxy that has been doing it since 1967: So now, it becomes paramount on why Booster can distinguish himself from Doctor Who without the usual cliche' personality flaws. 

 

I'm excited but reserved because time travel writing is HARD. One episode? Challenging. Over a season? Extremely difficult. Over a decade? Painfully hard. And tha's why Doctor Who is not a national treasure but an international treasure to be recognized. :)

Comment by Jose Antonio Rivera on November 27, 2011 at 8:12am

I don't normally do this, but I wanted to comment on the Booster Gold discussion. I also rolled my eyes when I heard this but I did it for a different reason than the League. See, I happen to love Booster Gold. I have since I was a kid. I grew up with the character be it in his own series or when he joined the JLI. And I have no idea how this show will turn out IF it makes it to shooting the pilot. But I did want to talk about the character.

 

Booster wasn't always an arrogant jack-ass. In fact, in the JLI, the character grew thanks to his friendship with Blue Beetle. But, the misconception is that he was always the character everyone assumes he is. They never see the growth. Both he and Blue Beetle suffered through the 90's extreme wave, which didn't do him any favors, and then he went into obscurity with the occasional guest appearance here and there in the 00's. Then 52 comes along and it gives me the Booster I loved back, but somehow everyone is saying "Oh, he's great now because they changed his character." Umm...no they didn't. They continued what they were doing before, but now it has Geoff Johns' name attached.

I was happy to see him get his own series again. Geoff Johns and Dan Jurgens added a "fixing-the-timestream" aspect to that series. We got the comedy we loved in the JLI, the character development in his original series and we got to follow him month to month as he dealt with time issues as well as personal issues.

 

Believe me, guys, this isn't a "Oh, you guys are wrong and you don't understand MY favorite character" rants. I know he's not for everyone. But it sucks to hear everyone describe him as the narcissist who's in it for himself. The character was written that like in the beginning, but that was a small part. It's like watching the first five minutes of something and then stopping to declare it's a piece of shit.

Will this new show even make it to air? Will it be good? We have no idea. All I'm saying is, keep going past the first five minutes. You might be surprised.

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